Journal article
Separating Gender Biases in Screening and Selecting Candidates for Hiring and Firing
Social behavior and personality, Vol.33(8), pp.793-804
01/01/2005
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2005.33.8.793
Abstract
A two-stage procedure (consideration set formation & final choice) was used to track the emergence of gender biases in hiring & firing decisions. Participants were allowed to select their own strategy for narrowing choice options (which candidates to retain or which candidates to delete). Each of the two experiments included a condition where job candidates were considered for hiring & a condition where current employees were considered for firing. Candidate features varied across experiments but the initial set always included 18 females & 18 males with comparable credentials. In both experiments male & female respondents selected candidates of their own sex for hiring & both males & females selected mostly male candidates for firing. In each experiment the bias showed up only in the final-choice stage. 4 Tables, 18 References. Adapted from the source document.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Separating Gender Biases in Screening and Selecting Candidates for Hiring and Firing
- Creators
- Irwin Levin - University of IowaRobert Rouwenhorst - University of IowaHeather Trisko - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Social behavior and personality, Vol.33(8), pp.793-804
- DOI
- 10.2224/sbp.2005.33.8.793
- ISSN
- 0301-2212
- eISSN
- 1179-6391
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2005
- Academic Unit
- Marketing; Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984380476602771
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